A talk from Joseph Shum, the General manager of Liferay Germany, focused on Introduction to Liferay platform on mimacom & Liferay Roadshow in Vienna on 6th June 2012

1. Introducing Liferay
Vienna Roadshow – June 6, 2012
Joseph Shum
Director of Operations Europe, Liferay GmbH
joseph.shum@liferay.com

2. What is Liferay?

3. What is Liferay?
• Open Source.
• A Portal Platform.
• For the Enterprise.

4. Liferay is Open Source – Since 2001

5. Used World Wide as a Portal Solution

6. Liferay is Open Source

7. Liferay is Open Source – Active Community

8. Liferay is Open Source – Growing Community

9. Liferay is Open Source – Community Development

10. Liferay Community Projects

11. New Features Developed by the Community
· Communities (Sites)
· Virtual Hosts
· Security – SAML v2
· EXT Plugin
· Translations
· Control Panel
· Improved SEO
· Flagging Content
· Advancements to Portlets (Wiki, Calendar)
· LAR import / export

12. Portal Platform Architecture
• Phased Development / Deployment
• Leverage 60+ Out of the Box Portlet Applications including
Content Management, Document Management, Collaboration
and Social Networking.
• Use Existing Frameworks for Authorization, Authentication,
Preferences, Workflow, Search, Look and Feel …

13. Portal Platform Architecture

14. Enterprise Leader
“Liferay's open-source
success is due to its
sharp focus, functional
excellence, and ease of
development and
deployment, as much as
cost.”

15. Global Presence

16. Liferay – Our Company
• Global commercial Open Source company since 2004
• 300+ Employees worldwide

17. What is Enterprise Edition (EE)?
Enterprise Edition
Services Certified Codebase
Maintenance Testing
Support Quality Assurance
Professional Services Scalability / Performance
Training Security
Testing Quality Assurance
Community Edition
Community Edition
Scalability Performance Security
Tools Customer Network
Liferay Developer Studio Customer Portal
Access to EE Marketplace
Participation in Roadmap

18. Why Enterprise Edition?
Customer: Public Administration
Patch Patch
•
Patch Patch Hard to
Retail
Maintain
PatchPatch Patch Patch Patch PatchPatch
Patch Patch Patch PatchPatchPatch
Patch PatchPatch
• Risk Quality
Banks
• Patch Performance
Risk
PatchPatch Patch Patch PatchPatchPatch Patch
Patch Patch
CE •
•
Patch
Risk Scalability
Patch
Risk CompatibilityPatch Patch Patch PatchPatchPatch Patch
Patch
Patch (Upgrades) Patch
Media
Costs for Liferay, Costs for the customer.
PatchPatch Patch Patch PatchPatchPatch
PatchPatch Patch
Insurance
Patch Patch PatchPatchPatch PatchPatch
Patch
Fix Patch Fix Patch Fix Patch Patch FixFix Fix PatchPatch
Fix Patch Patch Fix Fix Patch Patch
Fix Fix Patch Patch Fix
CE
3.x 4.x

19. Cost of Supporting Community Edition
Public Administration
Customer Project Maintaining your own branch of Liferay
• Source Code
Patch
source code.
Patch Patch Patch
• Project source code becomes more and
more complex as time goes on.
• Lose performance and stability.
• Lose guaranteed compatibility with future
versions of Liferay.
• Costs increase over time.
Fix Patch Fix Patch Fix Patch Fix Patch
CE
3.x 4.x 5.x 6.x

20. Supporting Enterprise Edition
CE

21. Lower Cost with Enterprise Edition
Guaranteed Ongoing Maintenance with End of Life Service Policy
SP1 Fix Pack Fix Pack
5.2 CE EE
Bug Fix Bug Fix
6.0 CE EE
Bug Fix
6.1 CE EE

22. Lower Cost with Enterprise Edition
Guaranteed Ongoing Maintenance with End of Life Service Policy
• Simple to Maintain
• Higher Quality
SP1 Fix Pack Fix Pack
•
5.2 CE •
EE Performance
Better
Reliable Scalability
• Guaranteed Compatibility
Bug Fix Bug Fix
(Upgrades)
6.0 CE EE
Lower overall costs for the customer.
Bug Fix
6.1 CE EE

23. Certified Codebase

24. Certified Codebase

25. Certified Codebase

26. Certified Codebase

27. Certified Codebase

28. Development Tools

29. Customer Network

30. Thank you!
Joseph Shum
Director of Operations, Europe